Yeesh.

Probably doesn't help you AT ALL but this is completely different bettween 
machines. I've not seen one in a long time that makes it that complicated, 
and I have a Mac!

On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Mike Miller wrote:

> I told my wife she should get a 2GB memory stick for her netbook and would 
> install it for her.  I had done this on my own Asus EeePC netbook, so how 
> hard could it be?  Well, it was a huge hassle.  It might have taken me 30 
> minutes to do it, which is surprisingly fast considering the complexity of 
> the operation.  Thank goodness I had this video to show me the way:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci3w3jvJIpA
>
> Just be sure you keep very close track of which screw goes where because they 
> are almost all different lengths.
>
> Basically, you have to disassemble the whole darned thing, remove the 
> keyboard, the HDD, WiFi and motherboard to get at the RAM.  I did it and it 
> worked, but that was not what I would have wanted.  I won't buy a 
> laptop/netbook that doesn't have an easier way to upgrade memory.
>
> Mike
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